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Project Pat on Vinyl: A Guide to Ghetty Green and the Hypnotize Minds Years - GOOD TASTE Records

Project Pat on Vinyl: A Guide to Ghetty Green and the Hypnotize Minds Years

Project Pat was born Patrick Earl Houston on February 8, 1973, in North Memphis, and he is the older brother of Juicy J. That put him inside the most productive rap operation in the city well before he had a record under his own name. Through the 1990s he was the voice that kept turning up on Three 6 Mafia and Prophet Posse records, a flat, unhurried Memphis drawl that worked as well on a hook as on a verse, and he was moving his own tape material around town the whole time.

The catalog matters because of who made it and where. DJ Paul and Juicy J produced nearly all of it, in Memphis rooms, for labels the camp owned or controlled, which is why these albums sound of a piece with the Three 6 Mafia catalog and like very little else. Ghetty Green arrived September 14, 1999 on Hypnotize Minds through Loud Records and RED Distribution, a twenty-track debut he wrote half of while he was in jail. Murderers and Robbers followed in July 2000, collecting the 1990s tape years in one place. Then came the two albums that carried him furthest, Mista Don't Play: Everythangs Workin in February 2001 and Layin Da Smack Down in August 2002, the second with Columbia on the release alongside Hypnotize Minds and Loud.

The catalog keeps earning attention because so much later music points back at it. The hook on Sippin on Some Syrup, the 2000 Three 6 Mafia single with UGK, is his, and that is where most listeners outside the South first heard him. Two decades on, Drake and 21 Savage put him on Knife Talk, and a generation of phonk producers built a sound out of records like these. He has not stopped working either: he and Juicy J finally made a joint album, DEM GOATS, released in July 2026. GOOD TASTE carries five Project Pat records spanning 1999 to 2017: the debut, the first compilation, the two albums from the Loud years, and the 2017 return. For the group side of the same story, our Three 6 Mafia on Vinyl guide goes deeper on the camp itself.

Project Pat - Ghetty Green

Project Pat - Ghetty Green Vinyl LP

The debut landed September 14, 1999 on Hypnotize Minds, with Loud Records and RED Distribution behind it. Ghetty Green runs twenty tracks cut at Hypnotize Minds Studio and Cotton Row Recording in Memphis, produced start to finish by DJ Paul and Juicy J, who also executive produced, with Mannie Fresh adding Choppers. The guest list reaches well past Memphis, to the Cash Money Millionaires, Krayzie Bone, Crucial Conflict and Noreaga, and Pat wrote half of it while he was in jail. Get On Down has it back on vinyl.

  • Why it's worth purchasing: the album that turned the camp's most-featured voice into a headliner.
  • Why it's worth purchasing: twenty tracks of DJ Paul and Juicy J production at the peak of the Hypnotize Minds sound.
  • Why it's worth purchasing: Ballers and Represent It, plus a guest list that ties Memphis to New Orleans and Cleveland.

Project Pat - Murderers & Robbers

Project Pat - Murderers & Robbers (Translucent Black Ice Color) Vinyl LP

Out July 25, 2000 on Project Records with Street Level distributing, Murderers & Robbers is the first compilation he put his name to, and it is where the pre-album years live. Twelve tracks, recorded across 1994 to 2000 and produced by DJ Paul and Juicy J, drawn mainly from the mixtape material he was selling through the 1990s, with Juicy J guesting twice. This pressing comes on translucent black ice vinyl.

  • Why it's worth purchasing: the 1990s underground material gathered in one place instead of scattered across tapes.
  • Why it's worth purchasing: a six-year recording span, which lets you hear the Memphis sound tighten up.
  • Why it's worth purchasing: translucent black ice vinyl, on a record that had a long stretch of being hard to find.

Project Pat - Mista Don't Play: Everythangs Workin

Project Pat - Mista Don't Play: Everythangs Workin (Green Color) Vinyl LP

Mista Don't Play: Everythangs Workin came out in February 2001 on Hypnotize Minds and Loud, and it is the record most people mean when they say Project Pat. Chickenhead, the single, has Three 6 Mafia and La Chat on it, and the back-and-forth between Pat and La Chat is the part everyone can recite. Get On Down presses it on green vinyl.

  • Why it's worth purchasing: the best single entry point in the catalog if you only take one home.
  • Why it's worth purchasing: Chickenhead, and one of the great Memphis back-and-forths on record.
  • Why it's worth purchasing: green vinyl from Get On Down.

Project Pat - Layin Da Smack Down

Project Pat - Layin Da Smack Down (Brown & White Color) Vinyl LP

The third album arrived August 6, 2002 on Hypnotize Minds and Loud, with Columbia on this one as well. Layin Da Smack Down closes out the stretch when the camp had major label distribution pushing its records, and it is the last of the Loud era albums on our shelf. Get On Down has it on brown and white vinyl.

  • Why it's worth purchasing: the end of the Loud and Columbia run, and the natural shelf-mate to Mista Don't Play.
  • Why it's worth purchasing: eighteen months after the album before it, with the same camp still making every decision.
  • Why it's worth purchasing: brown and white vinyl from Get On Down.

Project Pat - M.O.B.

Project Pat - M.O.B. (Green/Black/Purple Color) Vinyl LP

Fifteen years and five albums after Layin Da Smack Down, M.O.B. landed September 8, 2017 on X-Ray Records, twelve tracks with XTC Beats producing all of them. Juicy J takes the lead single, Money, and Young Dolph turns up on O's, which makes this the one record here where the Memphis generations stand next to each other. It comes on green, black and purple vinyl.

  • Why it's worth purchasing: one producer across all twelve tracks, which gives it a tighter shape than most late-catalog rap albums.
  • Why it's worth purchasing: Juicy J and Young Dolph in the same place, two Memphis eras at once.
  • Why it's worth purchasing: green, black and purple vinyl.

If You Like Project Pat

  • Three 6 Mafia: the group he worked inside for years without ever being one of the six, and the deepest shelf in the camp.
  • Koopsta Knicca: one of the actual six, whose solo album carries the early Hypnotize Minds dread better than anything else.
  • Young Dolph: the Memphis independent who guests on M.O.B., and who built his own label the way the camp built theirs.
  • Bun B: UGK's half of Sippin on Some Syrup, the song that first carried Pat's hook out of the South.
  • Suicideboys: the clearest modern inheritance, a New Orleans duo who have never hidden what 1990s Memphis tapes did to them.

Where to Go From Here

Everything above sits in Classic Hip-Hop, with the wider shelf in Hip-Hop. Titles not on our shelf, if you are filling gaps elsewhere: Crook by da Book: The Fed Story from 2006, Walkin' Bank Roll from 2007, Real Recognize Real from 2009, Loud Pack from 2011, Mista Don't Play 2: Everythangs Money from 2015, and DEM GOATS, the album he and Juicy J put out in July 2026. To browse every Project Pat title we stock, in every pressing, visit the Project Pat collection.

Coty Smith